Infant Mortality and Minimum Wage

NewsSeptember 8, 2016

A recent study
in the American Journal of Public Health details the
effects of minimum wage on health outcomes. Researchers show an
association between a $1 increase in minimum wage and a 1-2%
decrease in low birth weights and a 4% decrease in post neonatal
mortality. Looking at minimum wage here in San Mateo County, San
Mateo has become the first
in the county to get a boost in minimum wage starting
next year. The City Council unanimously adopted a local ordinance
to raise wages to $15 by 2019 earlier this month.

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